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1/ ๐Ÿ“ˆ Simon Abundance Index 2023 ๐Ÿ“ˆ

Our editor @Marian_L_Tupy and BYU's @gpooley just updated their resource abundance index with 2022 data.

The headline: Since 1980, resources have become 420% more abundant.

#SimonAbundanceIndex #EarthDay

๐Ÿ“„: humanprogress.org/the-simon-abunโ€ฆ ImageImage
2/๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ‘งโ€๐Ÿ‘ฆ Does population growth make resources scarcer?

Not according to the data.

Between 1980 and 2022, the world's population grew by 79.4%.

Over that same period, global resource abundance increased by 420%.

For the average person, it increased by 190%.

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3/๐Ÿฆ  Global resource abundance fell by 3.55% in 2022.

While regrettable, that decline was much smaller than the 22% drop in 2021 caused by COVID-19 and its related policies.

Note that the index increased by an average of 4.46% per year between 1980 and 2022. Image
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